Robotic surgery ends with safe delivery

Some said the world would end, but for baby Zoey it marked the beginning.

The significance of her birth yesterday — on 12/12/12 — had far more to do with the wonders of technology than any rare, date sequence.

Her safe arrival at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) meant her mother Anne O’Mahony became the first woman in Ireland to achieve a second full-term pregnancy, having had robotic surgery prior to her first pregnancy to help prevent miscarriage.